“In the middle of the wall, above the posternOr perhaps, “rear window.” is constructed a shrine of Athena. The goddess is ‘of marble, and is not in harness but as a war-goddess. would appear when at peace.

“Then we have another Athena, not of marble this time, but in colours as before. Hephaestus is pursuing her amorously; she is running away and Erichthonius is being engendered of the chase. Mother Earth gave birth to him, not Athena.

"On this there follows another prehistoric picture. Orion, who is blind, is carrying Cedalion, and the latter, riding on his back, is showing him the way to the sunlight.

"The rising sun is healing the blindness of Orion, and Hephaestus views the incident from Lemnos.

“Odysseus is next, feigning madness because he does not want to make the campaign with the sons of Atreus. The ambassadors are there to summon him, All the details of his pretence are true to life—the wagon, the ill-matched team, He yoked an ass and an ox together. the folly of his actions. He is shown up, however, by means of his child. Palamedes, son of Nauplius, comprehending the situation, seizes Telemachus and threatens, sword in hand, to kill him, meeting Odysseus’ pretence of madness with a pretence of anger. In the face of this fright Odysseus grows sane, becomes a father and abandons his pretence.